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British Literature Flashcards

1
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Cavalier’s Moto.

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Carpe Diem

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2
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Henry Tutor becomes…

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Henry VIII or “God-Like”

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3
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Earnest author.

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Oscar Wilde

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Repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each other.

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Assonance

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5
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Head of Puritans.

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Oliver Cromwell

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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

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Epistrophe

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A concise and often witty statement of wisdom or opinion.

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Aphorism

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8
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Martyred under Henry II.

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Thomas Beckett

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When an absent or nonexistent person or thing is address as if present and capable of understanding.

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Apostrophe

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10
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Highest ranked pilgrim.

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Knight

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11
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Nicknames for the Puritans.

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Roundheads

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The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions.

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Personification

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Swift’s BIG satire.

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Gulliver’s Travels

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14
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Defeated at the Waterloo.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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15
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Recording of the war (HUGE film strip).

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Bayeux Tapestry

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16
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Shakespeare’s Queen.

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Elizabeth I

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17
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Making something divine.

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Canonization

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18
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Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words, not used in its literal sense.

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Metaphor

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19
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Elizabeth’s mother

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Anne Boleyn

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20
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First known settlers of England.

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Celts

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21
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Who invented the movable type printing press?

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Gutenburg

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22
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Formation of words whose sound in imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated.

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Onomatopoeia

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

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Anaphora

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24
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An outcome that turns out differently than expected.

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Situational Irony

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25
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What writer could have been assassinated?

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Christopher Marlow

26
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Richard I was also known as…

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Lionheart

27
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When the audience knows something the characters don’t.

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Dramatic Irony

28
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The fate of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

29
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A metaphor that continues through a stanza or a whole poem that sometimes uses multiple comparisons of unlike objects.

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Extended Metaphor or Conceit

30
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ABABCDCDEFEFGG

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Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme

31
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ABABBCBCCDCDEE

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Spenserian Rhyme Scheme

32
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What is said is different than what is meant.

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Verbal Irony

33
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Expression of something that is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.

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Irony

34
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales in English why?

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He wanted to keep English alive

35
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Swift’s juvenilian satire.

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The Modest Proposal

36
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An explicit comparison between two things using “like” or “as”.

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Simile

37
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Renaissance lasted from…

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15th to 16th almost till 17th Century

38
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Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another.

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Oxymoron

39
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Substitution of one word for another which it suggests.

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Metonymy

40
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Saint Augustine brings ______ and converted Barbarians.

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Christianity

41
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European cities were built on this major river.

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The River Thames

42
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Exaggeration for emphasis or for the rhetorical effect.

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Hyperbole

43
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Ruled during the Industrial Revolution.

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Queen Victoria

44
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Number of lines in a sonnet.

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14

45
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Wrote the dictionary of the English language.

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Samuel Johnson

46
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Known as multifaceted or the Renaissance Man.

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Ben Franklin

47
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______ is known as the First Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Saint Augustine

48
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The Norman Conquest took place in…

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1066

49
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Recorded histories and stories (Monk).

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The Venerable Bede

50
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Who killed many Protestants?

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“Bloody Mary”

51
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A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.

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Ode

52
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The Conqueror.

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William I

53
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Ruled during the American Revolution.

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George III

54
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Earliest period of English literature.

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Old English

55
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The Canterbury Tales were written in…

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Middle English

56
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Who wrote The Taddler and The Spectator?

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Addison and Steele

57
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Who was found in a handbag?

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Jack Worthington

58
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Scottish Poet.

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Robert Burns

59
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Mariner killed the…

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Albatross

60
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Created the Anglican Church.

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Henry VIII

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